California Native Plants for the Garden

$30.00

California Native Plants for the Garden is a comprehensive resource that will appeal to every gardener who has an interest in California’s unique flora. Featuring more than 500 plants and illustrated with 450 color photos, this beautiful reference book describes the best California species for gardens and provides detailed advice on their cultivation–from landscape design and installation to watering, pruning, and pest control. Regardless of where you live or your level of horticultural expertise, California Native Plants for the Garden will help you discover the joys of growing California’s remarkable plants.

Description

Author: Carol Bornstein, David Fross and Bart O’Brien

Featuring more than 500 of the best California native plants and illustrated with 450 color photos for gardening. The authors have teamed up to share their deep knowledge and appreciation of gardening with California native plants. Includes chapters on landscape design, installation, and maintenance. Detailed lists of recommended native plants for a variety of situations, appendices with information on places to see native plants and where to buy them.

“If you have ever wished for a single source of information dedicated to California native plants in the landscape, ask no longer. . . . Along with beautiful photographs of native plant gardens taken by professionals passionate about our state’s natural beauty, the well-organized design and expert content make this a must-have for anyone who gardens in California. ”– Fremontia: A Journal of the California Native Plant Society

“California Native Plants for the Garden… is a stunner and comes at just the right time to stoke the growing interest in these beautiful water-wise garden gems… [It is] a marvelous new resource.”– San Jose Mercury News

“California Native Plants for the Garden delivers… It provides advice to folks who have struggled with growing natives in their gardens. And it offers terrific landscape photos to convince skeptics that native plants are truly attractive.”– Santa Maria Times

“Go out and buy California Native Plants for the Garden… [this] new book is a must-have.”– San Francisco Chronicle

“Carol Bornstein, David Fross, and Bart O’Brien have combined their deep knowledge of and experience with California plants into a thorough and charismatic guide that speaks to both novice and expert gardeners throughout the state… This engaging and comprehensive guide will be a valuable addition to any gardener’s library.”– Bay Nature

“Guaranteed to feed the passion of plant lovers everywhere… California Native Plants for the Garden offers a wealth of information laid out on lush stock and peppered with clear, colorful photographs. The text is concise, accessible, and authoritative, while providing solid guidelines and how-to tips.”– Santa Barbara News-Press

“From the beautiful cover photo of blue-eyed grass through 280 pages of well-illustrated information on California’s incredibly diverse flora, this book has been worth the wait.”– San Diego Union-Tribune

“It’s well-written enough to be a good read on its own, and its illustrations arouse garden dreaming. Dang, this is a handsome book.”– Berkeley Daily Planet

A Photographic Journey of California Lupines

Stuart Wilson has long held a love and fascination of the genus Lupinus. After many springs spent photographing our local species, he decided to embark on a project to photograph every species and variety (104) found in California. Traveling throughout the state in 2015 and 2016, he has reached his goal (with a few noteworthy exceptions). He will give an overview of the great variety of forms found in the genus with tips on identification.

Stuart Wilson has been interested in photography since high school. After college in Orlando, Florida, he moved to Santa Barbara to study at Brooks Institute. He has traveled extensively in pursuit of nature subjects such as insects, amphibians and reptiles, and other small animals. He markets his photography through Science Source, a stock agency based in New York. He produced most of the photographs for Joan Lentz’s book. A Naturalist’s Guide to the Santa Barbara Region. He is a past president of Channel City Camera Club in Santa Barbara. Visit Stuart’s website to get a taste of the beautiful photographs featured in his talk.

The CNPS monthly meeting Thursday, May 4 at the San Luis Obispo Veterans Hall will kick off with a workshop from 6:10 to 7:00 pm on lupine identiﬁcation led by Dr. Dave Keil.

Our county is home to a diversity of Lupinus species, two of which grow nowhere else. Dave will give a quick intro to lupine features, and participants will then have the opportunity to try out the draft treatment on Lupinus from the nearly completed second edition of The Vascular Plants of San Luis Obispo County, California. Bring your hand lenses!

June is bringing a crammed-full sales table to the May meeting. Think of all those birthday gifts you have to buy, all your ugly T-shirts that need replacing, the thank-you gift to your maiden aunt, and the financial support you wish to give CNPS.

NEW ITEM JUST IN TIME FOR SUPERBLOOM. As well as the downloadable version, we have a CD with two versions of the program available at the sales table

Saturday, May 13, 9:00 am, Indian Knob on the Guidetti Ranch with ECOSLO

Hike with a docent from the SLO Stewards Program to Indian Knob at Guidetti Ranch in the hills just south of the city of San Luis Obispo. This is a hike is one that can only be done with a docent since it is a private ranch under a conservation easement, and we only do it three or four times a year. Hopefully during the hike, we will see the two endemic flowers which the ranch has on it – the Indian Knob Mountain Balm and the Pismo Clarkia.

We will meet at 9:00 A.M. to carpool to the ranch, since there is not very much parking at the entrance to the ranch. This is a moderately strenuous hike, is approximately eight miles with an approximate 600 feet gain in elevation. The last half mile or so to Indian Knob the trail is very overgrown, so be prepared for some bushwacking. Since all of the hikers are required to stay with the docent, you will not be able to turn back whenever you want, so you must be prepared to hike the full eight miles.

Bring water, sunscreen, and a lunch with you; wear sturdy shoes; and be prepared to get back to our cars about 2:00. Also, since this is on private property, no dogs are allowed.

Only 20 people are allowed on this hike, so you must email Carolyn Huddleston, who is a volunteer with ECOSLO (the Environmental Center of San Luis Obispo) to reserve a spot; her email is carolyn.j.huddleston@gmail.com. If you are unable to go with us this time, you can email Carolyn and get your name put on the notification list for the next hike at the Guidetti Ranch, and she will email you the next time one is planned.

Join us for this Mother’s Day visit to one of the “hottest” spots for botanical diversity in San Luis Obispo county. Our leader D.R. “Doc” Miller will take us to see the unique species located on these coastal bluffs. The Arroyo de la Cruz area features a variety of plant communities and a number of endemic and rare plants found only in this relatively small area.

Meet at the Elephant Seal Overlook (ﬁrst entrance on the left going north) at 9:00 am. The ﬁeld trip will last roughly 3 hours. Be sure to bring water, snacks, sturdy shoes, sunscreen, a hat, and layered clothing, as needed.

For those wanting to carpool from the south, meet in the parking lot of Spencer’s Market in Morro Bay (2650 Main Street) at 8:30 am.

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About CNPS-SLO

The mission of the California Native Plant Society is to increase understanding and appreciation of California’s native plants and to conserve them and their natural habitats through education, science, advocacy, horticulture and land stewardship.
The local San Luis Obispo Chapter, CNPS-SLO, was founded in 1967 and is one of 33 chapters statewide.